Once again, I am sorry. I just can't seem to get a hold of this consistent blogger mindset. This probably has something to do with why I could never keep a journal either. This weekend was extended to give us an opportunity to travel, but I chose to stay home (it actually feels like home now) and have a nice restful, free weekend. I get to type this us beside a window that is open to the cool air from a rainy day here in Montevideo. It is a good day to be lazy. Anyway, since I have last posted a LOT of things have happened. We went to Buenos Aires for five days, finished our Bible course and went to a futbol game in Montevideo. I'll document this in chronological order.
First, we had our second short week in a row and headed out on the last Friday of February (is it already March?!) to Buenos Aires. We first had a bus ride out to the historical district of Uruguay and spent the day in Colonia, just across the Rio de la Plata from B.A. It was nice little cobblestone town and we found a place to have some food and drinks, "The Drugstore." Five hours later we finally boarded the Buquebus ferry and started over to Argentina. Buenos Aires is easily the New York of South America. From I had heard it looks like a combination of Paris and San Diego, but I am pretty sure it is plenty larger than either. The only scheduled events for us during the whole five days was a bus tour of the city on Saturday and church Sunday morning. Outside of those allotted times were we free to roam the city. I spent much of our time walking through the street markets and finding places to eat. One night, a group of us actually found a T.G.I.Fridays! It wasn't the same as at home, but it was fun to experience. Other than that we found a pizza place called "Genova" which is awesome because that's my Gran's name! The pizza was great too, it was the first circular pizza we had seen since arriving in South America. One thing that Buenos Aires taught me, or more reinforced with me, was that I am not a city person. I loved getting to be there for a few days and experience it, but my favorite times were when I found a quiet place in the park. Just makes me look forward our other trips even more.
Once we got back to Montevideo on Tuesday, it was right back to school work. At the end of January we started our Cultural Bible class. The course is designed as short summer course, so this meant an assignment is due just about every day. The trade off however is that we very thankfully finished the course this past Thursday (got an A, by the way). Don't get me wrong, I loved the content and assignments of the class. It was just so much at a time. It will be great to have more time for the classes here now. And if I were to give an excuse for why I hadn't posted in a while, that course would be it.
Now for more recent and awesome events on Wednesday night of this week we went to a Uruguayan futbol game. We went to cheer for the team of Penarol, one of the teams based out of Montevideo. We support Penarol because our church friends tell us to, haha, but apparently they are pretty good and worth supporting. All the stories you hear about how crazy futbol games are and how insane the fans are, they all under-exaggerate. It. Was. Insane. Any time the ball was anywhere near the goal every single person was on their feet. There was non stop yelling at the refs and cheering on the team. The fanaticos had taditional songs and chants that were sung from the start of the match until it was finished. The passion that all of the fans have is incredible. Hopefully I will get a chance to go another game and get my own Penarol jersey.
In exactly a week I will be leaving for Chile! We get ten days of free travel and I will be in Chile for all ten. First we (Hailey, Stefanie and I) will spend Saturday and Sunday nights in Santiago and then bus out to Vina del Mar Monday morning. Vina del Mar is a city right on the Pacific coast about an hour and a half from Santiago and Jay Hemphill is studying abroad there! It will be great to see him. We will stay there until Thursday morning when we will bus back to the other side of Santiago and up into the Andes. We have booked an attic room in a refugio way out away from any cities, up in the mountains. We will stay there until Saturday when we will go back down to Santiago and stay there until out flight back to Montevideo on Sunday night. It's going to be awesome! I can't wait!
Until I return,
Curtis
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